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Scarlett Johansson's sci-fi action film Lucy earned $2.74 million Thursday night after opening at 8 p.m. (A glitch at AMC theaters had previously held up box-office reports Friday morning, but Universal has loosely estimated that the film earned around $2.5 million.)

This weekend's other action offering, Dwayne Johnson starrerHercules, earned $2.1 million from its evening showings after opening at 7 p.m.

Universal's female-led actioner should take the No. 1 spot this weekend, beating rival newcomer Hercules. Prerelease tracking suggests Lucy will race past $30 million in its debut — many think it will cross $35 million — while Hercules is expected to earn in the mid-$20 million range, a disappointing start.

Lucy, directed by Luc Besson, stars Johansson as a woman who, after acting as a drug mule, ingests a drug that gives her extraordinary abilities.

Besson'sEuropaCorp made the R-rated Lucy for a reported $40 million. Morgan Freeman also stars.

Brett Ratner helmed Hercules in his first directorial outing since 2011's Tower Heist. Adapted from Radical Comics' Hercules, the $100 million film stars Johnson as the man with the strength of a god but the ability to feel pain as a human. His new adventures begin when he's enlisted by the daughter of the lord of Thrace to save her kingdom from civil war.